Bowl game at Levi’s Stadium set for Dec. 30

In what will be the final college football bowl game before the playoff-group bowls take place on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, the San Francisco Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara is set for Tuesday, Dec. 30 at 7 p.m. The game, formerly played at AT&T Park under various title sponsors, will pit the fourth Pac-12 team selected against an upper-tier Big Ten squad.

The San Francisco Bowl does not as yet have a title sponsor but the game’s executive director, Gary Cavalli, is optimistic a sponsor will be in place well before Dec. 30. This will be the 13th year of the San Francisco bowl and the first to be played at the new home of the 49ers.

This is the first year of a six-year agreement between the S.F. Bowl and the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences.

“Ours will be the last game before the playoff-group bowls begin on New Year’s Eve, so we will benefit from a nice buildup and a good lead-in from three strong bowls scheduled before us on the 30th,” Cavalli said in a statement.